The giant panda, a national treasure, is far from being as peaceful as people think. In fact, the giant panda is an animal with explosive fighting power. Not only are wild giant pandas untamable, but even the destructive power of giant pandas that have lived in zoos since childhood cannot be underestimated.

Gu Gu, the giant panda at Beijing Zoo, has bitten and injured people four times, including two serious injuries. Gu Gu can be called the "cage gladiator" in the giant panda world. One of the times was 12 years ago, when a tourist illegally climbed into the fence and was discovered by Gu Gu, who hugged and bit him.

Although the tourist pushed Gu Gu with all his strength, he was still helpless with Gu Gu, who weighed more than 200 kilograms. In the end, he was seriously injured and was hospitalized. The wound on the gastrocnemius muscle of his left lower limb was nearly 10 centimeters, and he almost died. Who would have thought that giant pandas in captivity could be so ferocious?

In ancient times, giant pandas were once called Pixiu

Although the giant panda has a cat in its name, it has nothing to do with cats. From ancient times to the present, the giant panda has also had many nicknames, including Pixiu ("The Book of Songs", "Shangshu", "The Book of Songs", "Historical Records"), white bears, flower bears, iron-eating beasts, etc.

As early as more than 4,000 years ago, the giant panda, also known as Pixiu, was as famous as the ferocious tiger and leopard, and became the totem of many tribes. Legend has it that the giant panda even helped the Huangdi tribe defeat the Yandi tribe.

In the Han Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago, Sima Qian believed that the giant panda had sharp teeth and could even chew copper and break iron. It was a very ferocious beast. In 150 BC, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty also released more than 300 giant pandas in Shanglin Garden. Only warriors could hunt giant pandas.

Giant pandas, whose carnivorous taste is tasteless, can only become passive vegetarians

Giant pandas belong to a subspecies of carnivorous bears, because in their continuous evolution, they have lost one species. The special gene called T1R1 has lost the taste for meat. Since eating meat is tasteless, it has gradually switched to eating vegetarian food such as bamboo. However, although it has changed its eating habits, it still has not changed its ferocious nature.

Animals such as tigers, leopards, and wolves among carnivores all use sharp canine teeth as hunting weapons to defeat enemies with one move, but such canine teeth are useless in front of giant pandas. The giant panda has a more powerful weapon, its split teeth.

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The tips of the panda's split teeth are very sharp. When the giant panda bites the upper and lower split teeth together, it can crush the ligaments, skin or muscles of any animal like pliers. This is the giant panda's secret weapon.

The giant pandas in the zoo are so ferocious, especially the wild giant pandas. Because the living environment in the wild is very harsh, giant pandas are also one of the non-vegetarian animals.

Giant pandas in the wild will completely abandon their image of cute bears in the zoo and eat whatever they find. Sometimes It even captures live prey.

Although giant pandas like to eat bamboo, they can also eat many foods in the wild, such as angelica, corn, and potatoes. They really can’t find anything to eat, and they often go down the mountain to steal chicken feed. When food is scarce, Sometimes, he would even eat carrion of animals or prey on farmers' sheep.

Wild giant pandas can reach up to two meters in length, weigh about 160 kilograms, and have a tooth bite force of 1,400 cattle, slightly inferior to brown bears and polar bears. A CCTV documentary filmed a giant panda in a leopard. The scene of grabbing food in its mouth shows its ferocity.

Super resistant giant panda

Adult giant pandas do not have any natural enemies in the wild, but giant pandas are similar to sunfish. There is a huge difference between the size of larvae and adults. Giant panda cubs Only as big as a black house mouse, cubs, old giant pandas and sub-adults have many natural enemies in the wild.

These include golden eagles, black bears, tigers, clouded leopards, snow leopards, lynxes, wolves, etc., which are all natural enemies of non-adult giant pandas. When adult giant pandas encounter fierce beasts such as tigers and leopards, they can rely on the terrain to rely on trees or stone bunkers behind them to fight back with their claws and mouths.

If they are not strong enough, giant pandas will roll down from high places while holding predators in their arms. Giant pandas are very resistant to falling. Giant pandas living in zoos often fall from high trees. , and then acted as if nothing had happened, not even rubbing my butt, and kept doing whatever I was supposed to do.

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The ancestors of giant pandas lived in our country two to three million years ago, but at that time the size of giant pandas was slightly smaller than that of today's giant pandas, and they evolved several times before they became what they are today.

The reason why the giant panda has become our country’s national treasure is not only because of its cute appearance, but also because of its extremely low reproductive capacity. The giant panda only has a fertile period of two days every year. If you miss this time, you will have to wait another year. , the average giant panda only has a life span of about 20 years, that's why the number of giant pandas is so rare.

Be careful when "bears" appear

Like other bears, giant pandas also have many skills. In addition to being able to walk on two legs and hold bamboo with their claws, , it is also very good at climbing trees and swimming, and its fat body is extremely flexible.

A "bear" cannot be judged by its appearance, and water cannot be measured by a bucket. Giant pandas are cute on the outside, but they are very talented. In addition to being versatile, they are also very ferocious animals. If you go to the zoo to see giant pandas, you must pay attention to safety. You must know that people wearing sunglasses are really not easy to mess with in the animal world. The picture comes from the Internet and will be deleted if it violates the law.